Ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy wins $1.3M

A Florida jury awarded former NBA referee Tom Donaghy $1.3 million in a lawsuit against the company that published his memoir. Tim Donaghy sued Shawna Vercher and her company, VTi Group, in Pinellas County civil court, saying he hadn’t been paid. The now-defunct company published Donaghy’s 2010 book about referees and the NBA — I guess you can’t always count on Karma.-TO